Ebony's Jamilah Lemieux challenges the arguments of Abigail Fisher, a white candidate who says she was denied the right to attend the University of Texas, which insists she wouldn't have gotten in even without affirmative action.
Despite having gr ...
Posted Thursday, October 11th 2012 at 5:36PM
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Standing at the back of a packed high school gym as Vice President Biden finished speaking in Ft. Myers, Florida, on Saturday was 15-year-old Kobe Groce. He cradled a "Forward" sign, hoping to get the Vice President to sign it for his brother, Kaelin ...
Posted Thursday, October 11th 2012 at 5:26PM
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We rumbled, and I stood up in the paint like a real G."
Sunday's BET Hip Hop Awards were a mess for members of Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group crew. Two separate altercations led to a series of conflicting reports involving thrown punches, pepper s ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 10:08PM
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Joe Biden Debate Challenge: Go Big Or Be Sent Home
WASHINGTON -- A small sense of relief emanates from the Obama campaign with the approach of Thursday night's vice presidential debate.
The lackluster performance of President Barack Obama last ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 9:12PM
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There is an old saying that goes: “All Republicans aren’t racists; but all racists are Republicans.” This might be an exaggeration of facts, but Republican legislator from Arkansas, Jon Hubbard, certainly adds fuel to the flame.
In a book overflowin ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 9:06PM
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WASHINGTON — It’s more than President Barack Obama‘s lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day.
SEE ALSO: Madeleine Albright: Romney ‘Dead Wrong’ On Foreign Policy
Party loyalists in Washington and in b ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 9:04PM
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Whether casually rocking a pair of printed pants or all dolled up for dinner with the President, there's no denying that Beyonce is bootylicious.
And it's those killer curves that momentarily derailed Jay-Z Friday night at the last performance of ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 8:53PM
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The sick sunni Muslims are at it again !!
ISLAMABAD -- Schools shut their doors in protest and Pakistanis across the country held vigils Wednesday to pray for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 8:19PM
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Tiffany Webb (allegedly pictured), a Manhattan high school guidance counselor, was fired from her job last December by the New York Department of Education (DOE), after racy lingerie shots of her surfaced that were taken before she was hired. Now th ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 7:48PM
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DONT YOU THINK ITS TIME FOR BLACK PEOPLE AS A WHOLE TO wake up ?
Hello hello hello ''WITH A LOUD VOICE '',,,,,,,,,,,, WAKE UP !
Blacks will have more money to spend on goods and services, according to a recent report.
The State of the Afric ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 7:20PM
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We have to empower our kids through continual conversation and communication that bullying is not OK. We also have to make them believers that if they come to us with these types of problems we’ll take action immediately. We cannot sit back and minim ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 4:12PM
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OMG! An Ohio woman is accused of raping her 10-month-old son, videotaping it and sending it to her Michigan boyfriend.
24 year old Ashley Jessup was indicted in Columbus on two counts of rape, one count of child endangerment and one count of pande ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 4:08PM
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Most bullying happens when adults aren’t around, such as in between classes, at lunch or recess, after school, and online. Still, bullying rarely takes place without an audience - kids are around to see bullying 85 percent of the time. But even thoug ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 4:03PM
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Raheem Kelly
A&R at Island Def Jam Music Group
Nicki Minaj
Cash Money Content at Cash Money Records
Steven Jordan
The President at THESJMUSICGROUP
Tony Drootin
Director of Studio Operations at Bad...
michael"goldie" greaux
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kelly ...
Posted Wednesday, October 10th 2012 at 2:15PM
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I grew up in the era of Tashas and Jamars, Rasheedas and Tyrees, Tanikas and Maliks and The Age of the Almighty Keisha—Tikeisha, Lakeisha, Mekeisha, Nykeisha, Shakeisha—and I remember older folks everywhere struggling with names like that because the ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 10:47PM
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In honor of the leadership of US-born African-American/African-Caribbean/African-Latin@ Muslim women in responding to HIV/AIDS......
Islam can be fun! (Especially when dismantling interlocking oppression and building just, sustainable, loving and ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 10:36PM
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In a collaborative effort with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Howard University Professor Ivory Toldson and University of North Carolina Professor Chance W. Lewis aims to dispel the notion that African-American boys are underrepresented i ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 10:25PM
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There have been several lists created informing women on how to tell if their man is cheating so I decided to give some tips to the men on signs that the woman is up to some tricks. The list can be adjusted and some may see the signs as meaningless. ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 9:49PM
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The reasons why men cheat in a relationship are often different than the reasons why women cheat. A man’s reason for cheating can encompass a wide variety of reasons including genetics, a sense of challenge, self esteem and a lack of interest in th ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 8:50PM
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IRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) -
The head of the Birmingham Metropolitan Southern Christian Leadership Conference is calling for protests in support of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital.
The Jefferson County Commission will be voting on Tuesday on whether or not ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 8:47PM
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There is no negativity in realism. Also, there is a lot of false realism in the world. And the place where the most debilitating false realism occurs is with lack of self consciousness.
I always remember this chinese story when people talk about o ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 2:20PM
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(October 9, 2012) -- Award-winning educators and authors, Chike Akua and Kobie Wilkerson will host the next Teacher Transformation Institute (TTI) in Atlanta on Thursday and Friday, November 8-9, 2012. "Teachers come from all over the country to lea ...
Posted Tuesday, October 9th 2012 at 11:58AM
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